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Measuring Poverty in the 21st Century


The CPI hosted a conference on the future of poverty measurement in March 2016. Watch the videos from the first session exploring what poverty means and how it should be measured.

Is the U.S. the World’s Most Unequal Rich Country?


CPI Research Scholar Jonathan Fisher asks whether U.S. income inequality is unusually high in the fourth installment of our “State of the Union” video series.
2016 LIS Summer Workshop

This one-week intensive course will introduce researchers in the social sciences to comparative research in income distribution, employment outcomes, and social policy. The workshop will be held July 3- 9 in Luxembourg. Applications are due by April 25, 2016.

Featured Research
Income, Geography, and Life Expectancy

If you’re poor, you’ll live longer when you reside in an affluent area, according to a new study authored by CPI research leader Raj Chetty and published in The Journal of the American Medical Association.

Talks and Events

Why Is There So Much Inequality?


Rucker Johnson, Emmanuel Saez, and Sandra Smith (from UC-Berkeley) join Raj Chetty, David Grusky, Pablo Mitnik, and Sean Reardon (from Stanford) for the third annual Berkeley-Stanford Conference on Inequality. This year’s featured topics: education and labor markets.
 
Friday, April 15, Koret-Taube Conference Center, 9am

Book Reading: Sharing the Work


Come hear about the remarkable life and career of Myra H. Strober, one of Stanford's pioneering women faculty members as well as one of the first economists to research, write, and teach about the relationship between women and work. 

Tuesday, April 19, Bechtel Conference Center, Encina Hall, 4:15pm

The Future of Work


CASBS fellows Louis Hyman and Natasha Iskander draw on California's experience during the Dust Bowl to explore what kind of moral economy of work will be created when climate change displaces massive numbers of people.

Tuesday, April 19, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 5pm

Our Collective Racial Future


Actor and humanitarian Nate Parker speaks to the power of film and theater in reshaping historical narratives, complicating identities and social perceptions, and inciting modern-day movements for social justice.
 
Wednesday, April 20, Cemex Auditorium, 6:30 pm

TEDxStanford: The Human Race


The fifth TEDxStanford features some of Stanford's most accomplished pioneers in the arts, technology, medicine, and social sciences. This year's topic: "The Human Race."

Sunday, April 24, CEMEX Auditorium, 11am

Education and Inequity


Stanford President John Hennessy moderates a discussion about pervasive inequity in the American education system with three of the nation’s most forward-looking education thought leaders, including CPI research group leader Sean Reardon.

Wednesday, April 27, Paul Brest Hall, 7pm
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The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, a program of the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, is partly supported by Grant Number 5H79AE000101-05 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and receives funding from the Elfenworks Foundation.

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